Flowers for Sarajevo

John McCutcheon (Author) Kristy Caldwell (Illustrator)
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Product Type: Paperback Books
Age Groups: Ages 7 to 9

Young Drasko is happy working with his father in the Sarajevo market. Then war encroaches. Drasko must run the family flower stand alone.

One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician's response, Drasko finds a way to help make Sarajevo beautiful again.

Inspired by real events of the Bosnian War, award-winning songwriter and storyteller John McCutcheon tells the uplifting story of the power of beauty in the face of violence and suffering. The story comes to life with the included CD in which cellist Vedran Smailović accompanies McCutcheon and performs the melody that he played in 1992 to honor those who died in the Sarajevo mortar blast.

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SKU 151364
ISBN 9781682636749
Language English
Page Count 32
Product Type Paperback Books
Book Type Picture Books
Additional Contributor Kristy Caldwell
Primary Contributor John McCutcheon
Age Groups Ages 7 to 9
Publisher Peachtree Publishing Company, Inc.